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Ship Role - Lord-Captain: gains a +10 bonus to the Hold Fast! Extended Action. If he possesses the Exceptional Leader ability he may grant it to anyone aboard his ship once per Strategic Round as a Free Action, ignoring the normal restrictions on who can benefit from this ability.
Exceptional Leader: As a free action once per round, the Rogue Trader may grant an ally that he can see and who can hear him +10% to any one test.
Void Accustomed: [/i]immune to space travel sickness, zero- or low-gravity environments are not considered Difficult Terrain
Officer on Deck: +5 bonus to all Command Tests while aboard any spacecraft.
Ship-Bound Fighter: [/i]on a planet they suffer a –2 penalty to Initiative Tests and double the Ballistic Skill penalty for firing weapons at Long Range or greater. Don’t apply if they inside a tunnel or other confined space.
Air of Authority: on a successful Command Test, the Explorer may affect a number of targets equal to 1d10 plus his Fellowship Bonus.
Pistol Weapon Training (Universal)
Melee Weapon Training (Universal)
Resistance (Fear): +10 bonus when making Tests to resist Fear.
Talented (Command):+10 bonus to Tests made using that Skill.
Renowned Warrant talent: +10 bonus to Interaction Skill Tests with those who understand the importance of the warrant.

Command+10 (Fel)
Commerce (Fel)
Charm (Fel)
Common Lore (Imperium, Imperial Navy, Rogue Traders) (Int)
Evaluate (Int)
Literacy+10 (Int)
Scholastic Lore (Astromancy, Tactica Imperialis) (Int)
Speak Language (High Gothic, Low Gothic, Battlefleet War Cant, Trader’s Cant) (Int)
Secret Tongue (Rogue Trader)
Pilot (Space Craft) (Ag)
Dodge (Ag)
Awareness (Per)
Intimidate

Home World - Battlefleet

Birthright - In Service to the Throne

Lure of the Void - New Horizons

Trials and Travails - Dark Voyage

Motivation - Prestige

-250 BS Simple
-500 BS Intermediate
-100 Perception Simple
-100 WP Simple
-250 WP Intermediate
-500 WP Trained
-100 Awareness
-100 Ciphers (Nobilite Family)
-100 Melee Weapon Training (Primitive)

Characteristic Modifiers: –5 Willpower, +5 Fellowship
Starting Skills: Noble born characters begin play with Literacy (Int), Speak Language (High Gothic) (Int), and Speak Language (Low Gothic) (Int) as untrained Basic Skills.
Etiquette: +10 bonus on Interaction Skill Tests when dealing with high authority and in formal situations.
Legacy of Wealth: +1 to the group’s starting Profit Factor.
Supremely Connected: Peer (Nobility) Talent. Peer (Mercantile).
Vendetta: ...

Decadence Talent and a bonus of +3 to Agility. You suffer –3 Perception and 1d5 Corruption Points.

Seeker of Truth: You gain the Foresight Talent and the
Enemy (Ecclesiarchy) Talent. You suffer –3 Willpower

Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Gain Resistance (Fear) Talent
Marked by Darkness: gain 1d5 Insanity

You gain an Heirloom Item (see Table 1–2: Heriloom Items)

Warp Focus: Once per game session he may force a single opponent to re-roll a successful test when testing to resist the effects of The Lidless Stare Navigator Power.
Pure Genes: Whenever you must test for mutation (see page 182) the test is considered Routine (+20) rather than Ordinary (+10).
Exalted Lineage: +10 bonus to any Interaction Skill Test when dealing with members of the Imperial nobility.
Initial Mutation: Eyes as Dark as the Void: gain the Dark Sight Trait

Armour: Aspect Armour (All 7). Total TB: 3
†Exarch Armour: Eldar armour is extremely sophisticated
and is far less encumbering than its protective properties might
suggest. A warrior in Exarch Armour suffers no penalties on
Concealment or Silent Move Tests due to the armour. Exarch
Armour is fully sealed and protects the wearer from all hostile
environments, including vacuum.

Weapons:

Death Spinner (30m; S/3/-; 2d10+8 R; Pen 0;
Clip 20; Reload Full, Blast (1), Reliable),

Shuriken Pistol (30m; S/3/5; 1d10+2R; Pen 4; Clip 40; Reload 2 Full),

two forearmmounted Eldar Power Blades (Melee; 1d10+10 E; Pen 8;
Balanced, Power Field).

Gear: Warp Jump Generator††††, 2 cartridges of Death
Spinner ammunition, xenos-crafted medikit, a multitude of
soulstones, and helm (incorporating rebreather, photo-visor,
and micro-bead).

WS 52
BS 56
S 37
T 35
Ag 52(10)
Int 48
Per 48
WP 30
Fel 32

Movement: 5/10/15/30 Wounds: 16


Skills: Acrobatics (Ag) +10, Awareness (Per) +20, Climb
(S), Command (Fel) +10, Concealment (Ag) +10, Dodge
(Ag) +20, Lore: Common (Eldar) (Int), Lore: Forbidden (The
Black Library, The Warp, Xenos) (Int), Medicae (Int), Pilot
(Warp Jump Generator) (Ag) +20, Search (Ag), Security (Ag)
+20, Silent Move (Ag), Speak Language (Eldar) (Int), Tactics
(Assault Doctrine) (Int) +10, Tactics (Recon and Stealth) (Int)
+10, Tracking (Int).

Talents: Ambidextrous, Catfall, Crack Shot, Deadeye Shot,
Foresight, Hard Target, Heightened Senses (Hearing, Sight),
Jaded, Nerves of Steel, Quick Draw, Rapid Reaction, Step
Aside, Swift Attack, Two-Weapon Wielder (Ballistic, Melee), Xenos Weapon Training (Ranged, Melee).

Traits: Auto-Stabilised, From Beyond, Surprise Assault††,
Touched by the Fates (1), Unnatural Agility (x2),
Withdraw†††.



††Surprise Assault: Particularly under the guidance of
their Exarch teacher, Warp Spiders are experts at ambush
and surprise attacks, commonly butchering their foes before
those enemies can properly react. When attacking Surprised
or unaware enemies, the Warp Spider Exarch and his squad
may count those enemies as Helpless.

†††Withdraw: Warp Spider Exarchs view the flow and
weave of battle with a clarity that mortal warriors cannot
comprehend, let alone emulate, and can spot the very moment
at which an assault should end. Upon his signal, the Exarch’s
squad vanishes without a trace. On any turn, the Exarch can
disengage from the battle entirely as a Full Action. Upon
doing this, the Exarch and every Warp Spider in his squad
(as well as any incapacitated, injured, or dead members—
their armour follows the Exarch’s signal so that they can be
recovered safely) immediately leave combat and reappear 50
metres away, out of sight of their enemies; for all intents and
purposes, the battle is over, though the Warp Spiders live to
fight another day.

††††Warp Jump Generator: Every Warp Spider carries a
compact Warp drive, allowing them to make brief controlled
journeys through the Warp. Though lasting only for fractions
of a second, these jumps permit a Warp Spider to cross
dozens of metres at a time with little trace of his passage but
the subtle rush of displaced air. However useful these jumps
are, though, they are not without peril; for an Eldar to linger
within the Immaterium for more than the briefest of moments
is to invite catastrophe.
The Warp Spider Exarch may move at double his normal
Movement rate using the Warp Jump Generator, ignoring
all intervening terrain and obstacles in the process. He may
optionally try to linger in the Warp for fractions of a second
longer to travel 2d10 metres farther, but should the Warp
Spider Exarch roll a result of double 1s for this additional
distance, he must pass a Hard (–20) Pilot (Warp Jump
Generator) Test or fail to return to reality. Should he pass
the Test, he can only take a Half Action on his next Turn as
he staggers back into the material univers

The Thrill of War - Cost: 250xp
Effects: Gain Scholastic Lore (Tactica Imperialis) as a trained Skill. Additionally gain the Nerves of Steel and Quick Draw Talents. Finally, gain +3 Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill, but suffer –3 Fellowship.

Rogue Planet - Cost: 200xp
Effect: Gain +3 Willpower and a single Exploration skill of your choice as a Trained Skill. However, travelling to this lost world is an unnerving experience. Gain +1d5 Insanity Points.

Xenos Hunter - Cost: 200xp
Effect: Gain a +3 Weapon Skill or +3 Ballistic Skill. Additionally, gain either the Leap Up or Sprint Talent, and
Scholastic Lore (Beasts) or Tracking as trained Basic Skills

Heretek - Cost: 100xp
Effect: Gain +3 Intelligence. Additionally, the character may select two skills from the following list; these skills
are untrained Basic skills: Chem-Use (Int), Common Lore (Tech) (Int), Forbidden Lore (Archeotech) (Int), Tech-Use
(Int), Medicae (Int), Scholastic Lore (any) (Int). In addition, gain +1d5 Corruption points. The Adeptus Mechanicus does make it a point to hunt down and eliminate hereteks.

Characteristic Modifiers: –5 Toughness, +5 Fellowship
Starting Skills: All hive worlders can converse in the common cant of their home, each one unique to its hive of origin. Hive worlders gain the Speak Language (Hive Dialect) (Int) as an untrained Basic Skill.
Accustomed to Crowds: Hivers grow up surrounded by crowds. They are used to weaving through even the densest mobs with ease. Crowds do not count as Difficult Terrain for hivers, and when Running or Charging through a dense crowd, hivers take no penalty to the Agility Test to keep their feet.
Caves of Steel: To a hiver, surrounded at all times by metal, machinery, and industry, the lesser arcane mysteries of
technology are not so strange. Hivers treat the Tech-Use (Int) Skill as an untrained Basic Skill.
Hivebound: Hivers seldom endure the horrors of the open sky or the indignity of the great outdoors. They suffer
a –10 penalty to all Survival (Int) Tests, and whilst out of a“proper hab” (e.g., places without manufactured goods, solid ceilings, and electrical power) the hiver suffers a –5 penalty to all Intelligence Tests.
Wary: Hivers are constantly alert for the first hint of trouble, be it a gang shoot-out, hab riot, or hivequake. All hivers gain a +1 bonus to Initiative rolls.
Starting Wounds: Hive world characters double their starting Toughness Bonus and add 1d5+1 to the result to determine their starting number of Wounds.
Starting Fate Points: Roll 1d10 to determine a hive world character’s starting Fate Points. On a 1–5, he begins with 2 Fate Points; on a 6–8, he begins with 3 Fate Points; on a 9–10, he begins with 4 Fate Points.

Good Craftmanship Power Axe (Mezoa):
(Melee, Dam 1d10+7,Pen 7, Special: Power Field, Unbalanced, Weight 6 kg)
Boltgun (Locke)
(Basic, Range 90m, RoF S/2/4, Dam 1d10+5 X, Pen 4, Clip 24, Special: Tearing, Weight 7 kg )

Enforcer light carapace
(Full, AP 5, Weight 15 kg)

Multikey (0)
Void suit (8 kg)
Sacred unguents (0)
Micro-bead (0)
Combi-tool (1 kg)
Dataslate (0.5 kg)
Ancestral Seal (0) (Heirloom Item)

Charachteristic:

Skills:

Gear: Combi-tool, Inbuilt vox and cogitator.

Starting Skills, Talents & Gear
Starting Skills: Common Lore (Machine Cult, Tech) (Int), Forbidden Lore (Archeotech, Adeptus Mechanicus) (Int), Literacy (Int),
Logic (Int), Speak Language (Explorator Binary, Low Gothic, Techna-lingua) (Int), Tech-Use (Int), Trade (Technomat) (Int).
Starting Trait: Mechanicus Implants (see page 366).

Starting Talents: Basic Weapon Training (Universal), Melee Weapon Training (Universal), Logis Implant.
Starting Gear: Boltgun or best-Craftsmanship lasgun or good-Craftsmanship hellgun, best-Craftsmanship shock staff or good-
Craftsmanship power axe, Enforcer light carapace, multikey, void suit, injector, sacred unguents, micro-bead, combi-tool, dataslate.
The Explorator also begins play owning and controlling one servo-skull familiar (see page 375).

WS 43 - 5 (Homeworld) = 38
BS 39
S 33 + 5 = 38
T 35 -3 (Birthright) +3 (Fit for Purpose) + 6 (Trials and Travails)= 41
Agi 31 = 31
Int 40 + 5 (Homeworld) +3 (Birthright) +3 (Lure of the Void) = 53
Per 43 = 43
WP 33 = 33
Fel 32 = 32

Wounds: (после пересчета TB) = 4*2 + 1+2= 11.
Fate points: 3
Insanity points: 5

Common lore (Machine cult, Tech) (Int)
Forbidden lore (Adeptus Mechanicus) (Int)
Literacy (Int)
Logic (Int)
Speak Language (Explorator Binary, Low Gothic, Techna-Lingua) (Int)
Tech-Use (Int)
Trade (Technomat) (Int)
Forbidden Lore (Archeotech) (Int) +10
Scholastic Lore (Chymistry) (Int)
Scholastic Lore (Archaic) (Int)

Basic Weapon Training (Universal)
Melee Weapon Training (Universal)
Logis Implant

Technical knock
Peer (Academic)
Total Recall
Mechadendrite Use (Utility)

Charachteristics modifiers: - 5 WS, +5 Int
Starting skills:
Common lore (Tech, Machine Cult) (Int) - untrained basic skills
Credo Omnissiah: All forge world charachters begin with Technical Knock Talent
Fit for purpose: Starting a forge world charachter may increse a Charachteristis of his choice by +3
Stranger to the Cult: Forge world charachters suffer a -10 penalty on Tests involving knowledge of the Imperial Creed and -5 penalty on Fellowship Tests to interact with members of the Ecclesiarchy in formal settings
Starting wounds: Forge world charachters double their TB and add 1d5+1 to the result to determine their starting number of the Wounds.
Starting fate points: roll 1d10 to determine a forge world charachter's starting Fate points. On 1-5 - 2 Fate points, 6-9 - 3 Fate points, 10 - 4 Fate points.

To the scholar’s ear, there is no worse sound than the tearing
of parchment. It always marks a desecration of one sort or
another, be it a priceless work lost or a savant destroying
his own flawed labours in disgust. You know this because
the murmuring of savants, clicking of lexmachinery, and scent
of ink and dust have been a part of your life for as long
as you can recall. Apprentices are brought young into the
Adept’s trade, for there is much to learn and the human span
holds little time to learn it in. Apprentices sit in attendance
at meeting after meeting between elder savants, bathed in the
exchange of knowledge until they know how to learn and the
correct knowledge has been drilled into them. All the galaxy
is packed with knowledge, and even the smallest drop of it
would fill the minds of a world of savants to bursting. Yet you
derive much comfort from learning—even though you could
never personally know more than a miniscule fraction of all
there is to know.
Effect: You gain your choice of Logic (Int) as a trained
Basic skill or the Peer (Academic) Talent. You also gain your
choice of +3 Intelligence or +3 Fellowship, but you suffer
–3 Toughness.

Archeotechnologist
Ancient technology, known as “archeotech,” has always
fascinated you ever since you first laid eyes on a piece of
some hallowed, mysterious relic. You wondered why the
people that made it no longer can, and you are determined
to find more. You may be an Explorator of the Mechanicus,
for whom finding such items is a holy quest, or simply an
enthusiastic amateur. However, whether you travel to the
dig sites of Mechanicus Explorators, or manage to have
a wealthy patron sponsor a dig of your own, you know
that eventually more will be unearthed. You scour auction
houses and deal with the great Commercias of Noble
Houses in an effort to buy, trade, or even steal the objects
of your desire. Your knowledge of such devices is as great
as your desire to find more.
Cost: 250xp
Effect: Gain +3 Intelligence or +3 Perception. In addition,
gain one randomly determined item from Table 1-2:
Heirloom Items, on page 30 of the ROGUE TRADER Core
Rulebook as your first archeotech item. Also, gain Forbidden
Lore (Archeotech) (Int) as a Trained Skill.

Dark secret
There’s a secret you carry with you that, if known by others,
could destroy you. Perhaps you were the unfortunate victim
of a possession, and even though you fought the entity off
its mark is forever upon you. Or maybe you carry within you
some xenos artefact, such as a Yu’vath device, and you seek a
way to rid yourself of it. Whatever the secret is, you’re sure it
will devastate you and your friends if found out. There are no
lengths you would not go to prevent that discovery.
Cost: 200xp
Effect: The character carries within him the mark of his past.
Something terrible happened to him, but it gave him a great
advantage as well. Add +6 to any one Characteristic. However,
the character also harbours a dark secret he struggles to be
rid of. Gain +1d5 Insanity Points and work with the GM to
determine what this is and what circumstances are required to
remove it. It should be something difficult, rare, esoteric, and
very dangerous for the Explorer (such as getting blasted with
gamma rays from a certain pulsar at a certain time).

Knowledge is Life, Life is Knowledge
Lore is all-important to you; it is your purpose and your
reason, it is your goal and your desire, and it is the one thing
above all else that you aspire to possess. There is no ulterior
motive to your drive to understand, no hidden purpose to
give that curiosity a focus. You simply crave knowledge with
every fibre of your being, and you cannot stand the idea of
not knowing or not understanding something. Though new
insights and revelations cannot hope to sate this bottomless
urge, new understanding brings with it new power and new
means with which to find yet more knowledge. Each answer
leads to still more questions, and every new vista promises a
variety of secrets yet to be uncovered.
Cost: 300xp
Effects: Gain any two Scholastic Lore Skills as trained
Skills, and the Total Recall Talent. You may purchase a third
Scholastic Lore as a trained Skill for an additional 200xp.

The machine spirit of a starship is a slow but fickle intelligence,
demanding the veneration and respect of hundreds if it is to
function properly. The Omnissianic Congregator guides the
tech-priests and other crew versed in technoarcane ritual, in
the maintenance rites and algorithmic prayers that appease
spirit of the ship, conferring the blessings of the Omnissiah
upon its operation.
Career Preference
This Role is open only to Explorators and characters with the
Forge World Home World option.
Examples of Immediate Subordinates
Laymen Shipwrights, lexemechanics of the Central Cogitation
Vault, keepers of the Altar Omnissiah.
Important Skills
Tech-Use: To understand the ways of sacred technology and
the rituals that please the spirits of the machine.
Forbidden Lore (Adeptus Mechanicus): Those who wish
to receive the blessings of the ship’s machine spirit must be
guided in the canticles of activation and the benedictions of
efficiency.
Trade (Technomat): Every ship’s component must be
entreated in a different way, and the ship’s holy symmetry
reinforced by constant rituals of maintenance.
Benefits
The Omnissianic Congregator gains a +10 bonus to the Aid
the Machine Spirit Extended Action (see ROGUE TRADER
page 216).

1850 xp\2000 xp

300 xp - Motivation (Knowledge)
200 xp - Trials and Travails (Darkness)
250 xp - Lure of the Void (New Horizons)
200 xp - MIU weapon interface upgrade 1
200 xp - MIU weapon interdace upgrade 2
500 xp - Mechadendrite Use (Utility)
100 xp - simple advance S

Power sword, one good craftsmanship upgraded ("mono") aspis-shield. Micro-bead, void suit, enforcer light carapace armour, bolt shell keepsake, medikit, manacles, 3 doses of stimm.

В качестве спец-плюшки прошу Best Quality Synthetic Muscle Grafts (p 152). Доступность не ниже, чем у прежде запрошенного силового меча, а под персонажа ложится значительно лучше.

WS 62
BS 25
S 51
T 41
Ag 38
In 38
Per 26
WP 41
Fel 52

Wounds 13
Fate Points 3

Insanity 6
Corruption 0

50 free xp
+15 S 850 xp
+5 Fel 250 xp
+10 WS 750 xp
Command 100xp
Skills: Common Lore (War) (Int), Dodge (Ag), Intimidate (S), Scholastic Lore (Tactica Imperialis) (Int), Secret Tongue (Military) (Int), Speak Language (Low Gothic) (Int), Common Lore (Imperial Navy) (Int), Pilot (Space Craft) and Speak Language (Battlefleet War Cant) (Int).
Talents: Basic Weapon Training (Universal), Pistol Weapon Training (Universal), Melee Weapon Training (Universal), Thrown Weapon Training (Universal), Sound Constitution, Ambidextrous, Autosanguine, Nerves Of Steel, Quick Draw and ChemGeld
Traits: Natural Armor 2, Void Accustomed, Officer on Deck, Ship-Bound Fighter, Weapon Master (Melee)

Несмотря на устоявшийся собирательный образ хмурого, дотошного проповедника, который возникает в голове при мысли о последователях Имперских Святых, Брасид являет собой полную его противоположность большую часть времени. Впечатления от Коронуса помноженные на несколько изменённую физиологию превратили его в фонтан энергии и оптимизма. Святитель пьёт за троих, бьёт за пятерых и живёт за добрую сотню людей. Даже несмотря на его подчёркнутую кровожадность и несколько странные представления об Имперском Кредо - он остаётся добрым малым с уймой приятелей на корабле, который сперва загоняет своих людей до седьмого пота на учениях, а потом поделится с ними своими запасами спиртного, поясняя своё видение "муштры как формы поклонения Императору".

Впрочем, даже в этих условиях оставались люди на корабле с которыми он предпочитал не иметь дела. Даже самый оптимистично настроенный штурмовик не полезет пытаться налаживать отношения с шестерёнками, астропатами или навигаторами. К ним он испытывает плохо скрываемую обоюдную неприязнь.

В бою Зеро предпочитает показывать личный пример, находясь на острие атаки и рыча приказы сквозь вокс не отвлекаясь от прорезания дороги сквозь ряды врага. Изменённая биология просто не позволяет ему руководить операциями издалека - обильный поток боевых эндорфинов не может заменить ни один наркотик... Хотя может неплохо дополнить.

"Когда-то мы были богами, и кем стали теперь? Упорствующими в своём невежестве дикарями и обманывающими себя глупцами; словно беспомощные дети, которые разбрелись и заблудились в холодной тьме. Но я говорю вам: однажды мы были богами, и мы станем богами вновь!" - "В защиту будущего: Логический дискурс" Автор неизвестен, запрещена в М.36.

У каждого человека есть мать и отец. Это естественный порядок вещей, заведённый природой и судьбой. Брасид предпочитает считать, что хоть сколь-либо вписывается в эти рамки.
Его матерью была угроза уничтожения, его отцом - Поиск Знания. Далёкая алая звезда Дантис-3 была домом для Генеторов Лостока, искавших пути улучшения слабой человеческой плоти. Полуеретические исследования по изменению человеческой формы оказались весьма кстати, когда Дантис-3 оказался на пути очередного осколка флота-улья Тиранидов и единственным, что отделяло магосов от чанов биомассы оказался ничем не примечательный полк Лостокской Гвардии.
К несчастью, вся отвага этих людей не могла помочь им биться с ужасом звёзд в токсичной атмосфере биокузни. Сила духа не так важна, когда дуновение ветра превращает плоть в желе. Чистый разум бесполезен без мощных мускулов.
Генная модификация бойцов Лостока была фантастически рискованным шагом порождённым отчаянием. Неусточивые гибриды, ксено-химеры, чудовища - итоги экспериментов не заслуживали жизни и не надеялись остаться людьми. Вероятно, они хотели только выполнить свой долг.

Брасид не знает. Его никогда там не было.
После успеха Обороны Дантиса Тертиус возник повышенный интерес к биомодификации бойцов. В конце концов, именно генными улучшениями Астартес человечество завоевало Галактику.
Итоги были неутешительными. Как и в случае с геносеменем Астартес, возраст бойца был важнейшим фактором ограничения. Сформированная иммунная система отторгала импланты. Стандартный отсев в подростковом возрасте отсеивал бы слишком много потенциально тренированных бойцов и вносил много случайных факторов.
Вывод - если Омниссии нужны бойцы, то их проще вырастить с нуля. Ограничивающий фактор, который не позволил стартовать подобные исследования был прост - угроза аркофлагелляции всех исследователей за создание Искусственной Жизни вместе с уничтожением образцов.

Железные Тетрархи Каликсиды не были склонны всерьёз рассматривать догматы Омниссии. Им нужен был серьёзный козырь в вечной гонке вооружений с Лордами Драконами и этим козырем стала модификация Аугментации Лостока. Будущие уничтожители Культа Механикум забились в vitro-матках. В одной из них родился Брасид.

Укреплённый скелет. Ускоренная регенерация. Модицицированные голосовые связки. Улучшенная координация движений.
Логикам были необходимы мощные бойцы в условиях нулевой гравитации - обладающие достаточной скоростью для успешной конкуренции с Секьюторами Механикум и развитым творческим мышлением для преодоления тактических схем Багровой Гвардии. Брасид изначально разрабатывался в рамках проекта по созданию модифицированных офицеров с расширенной свободой воли, инициативой и амбициями.
Поскольку на дальних дистанциях бои превращаются в простое состязание выдержки плоти и брони против огневой мощи, где Секьюторам равных нет, то основной акцент подготовки делался на ближнем бою, в рамках которого было возможно быстро повредить уязвимые точки и обезоружить противника. Путём долгого анализа вероятных боевых стилей было принято решение взять за основу школу Кровавых Слёз, фанатичной секты Святой Женевьевы Альмейс. Найти достаточно фанатично настроенного Алого Освятителя для тренировки "крестоносцев против Омниссианского Диктата" не составило труда - Министорум и Механикум обладали семитысячелетней историей конфликта.

Первый бой Зеро увидел в рамках Малигрисианского Восстания. Магос Умбра Малигрис, второе лицо Миров Латэ, не преуспел в попытке переворота и бежал, преследуемый Культом Механикум. В последовавшем хаосе локальной гражданской войны теневые рейды Логиков на исследовательские центры обеих сторон проходили незамеченными. Командир штурмовой команды, Брасид близко ознакомился с будущим, которое ждало все успешные эксперименты. Вскрытие, исследование, вычисление лучших черт, создание следующих поколений.

Это не входило в его планы. Рейдер Логициан класса "Сорокпут" не прибыл обратно на базу, зато его, под другим руководством, видели проходящим через Пасть. С другой стороны прохода мятежные генные бойцы разбежались как крысы по всему сектору.

Никто не может бежать вечно. Появление бывших хозяев, де-факто, оставалось вопросом времени. Как и тщательное биосканирование, выявившее бы явно нечеловеческую природу.

Брасид не боится ни того, ни другого. Его разрабатывали с упором на амбиции, а в Коронусе амбиции не знают границ.